 We're talking gaming headsets and this time I am talking about the brand new Astro A40 TR with the MixAmp Pro TR. Yes, this is the latest from Astro. You've seen the Astro A40 TR. I did a video on that. Great headset, solid, really, really good. That's what I'm wearing right now. It's what I'm using with this video and giving you my voice over here. So you get a good idea of the microphone right off the bat. And that's the first thing I want to talk about is that Astro has done a really good job with this microphone. They've done a good job improving over the years. If you guys have watched me in the last seven years, in the past I didn't like their microphones. I thought they were terrible and they've done a good job improving that over the years. And I think this is one of the best mics they've had on the A40 line, which is pretty cool. Now the MixAmp Pro TR is the latest one. I've got the Xbox version. You can get one for the Xbox or the PS4. Both MixAmp Pros will work with PC. So you can work with your PC. And what I like about the MixAmp Pro is this. It's got two dials. This gives you one of the best connections for wired audio for your gaming system, be it Xbox, PlayStation 4, or your PC. And I'm recording this directly to on my PC. The MixAmp Pro has really awesome dials. You've got a massive big dial for your volume, which is really nice. And then you've got a small dial for your game and chat. Again, very simple and easy to access and you know what they are. Now you've got a button at the very bottom there. That's for your EQ setting. So the EQs that you set or you placed or just the custom ones already built in, you can actually switch it by just tapping on that button, which is really nice. And then you've got, of course, the Dolby button on top and surround sound, which you can switch through, which is also pretty cool. Now, there's a headphone jack that's right at the bottom for 3.5, which links all the way up to this cable right here, which has your mute button, which is a little bit weird that they still do that. But I get it because the MixAmp Pro is probably on the side, your gaming, you can quickly access it this way to actually go ahead and mute. And it's quite simple by just basically sliding up or down, up it's working, as you can see, down, sliding back up again, and we do have that mute back on. You also have an indicator as well on your MixAmp Pro. The dials are lit white and then the turn red when you actually mute. So you actually have visual clues on here, which is pretty nice. Now the back, this is connected via micro USB cable, so USB Type-C yet. So hopefully that changes next year. I'm nearly everyone on this, but I get the idea that yes, adoption and pricing can be an issue for that. But you also have a couple of connectors at the back. You've got your aux, you've got your stream, you've got your optical input, you've got your daisy chains, you've got two of those, as you normally expect. And then you've got your switcher between PC or Xbox. What's cool about that switch is that while you're on PC, as I am now, it will light up in front, same PC, so you know you're on PC. And then when you connect it to your Xbox One, and you switch, it will actually tell you you're on the Xbox One. So you've got those visual tools there to let you know what it actually does. And in terms of how the sounds, in terms of audio here, when you're playing a game, say it's something like Tomb Raider, it's very rich, it's very clean, it's very clear, you get all those sounds, everything comes in really well. And that's something Astro has done more for a while. So again, it's really standing out. Just to quickly touch on the headphones themselves, or game headsets themselves, even though I've covered these before, you check out that video for just more detail on the A40TR, really good headset. You've got the interchangeable facepates on either side, so I can move my mic from my left to the right, which is awesome. You can also change the headband as well. You've got the interchangeable cushions in. So one of the things that Astro has done for the years really well is making it customizable. So when you get a mod kit, which is about $59, for this, you can actually get a better microphone and also change the styling of your headset to reflect what you want to reflect. You can read your favorite game, your favorite anime character, whatever you want, you can do that. And that's what I like about it. And I think that's really solid here. I think overall you really like this headset. Combined pricing is $279 for the headset and the MixAmpro. The MixAmpro TR itself costs $129. But if you're looking for that wired headset with a solid feel, it goes a long way. Now in terms of software, you can go onto your PC and do some software customization, which is pretty nice. So looking at the software here, very standard Astro software setup. You've got your equalizer presets. You've got your sync and clear. So you can sync of course your presets in there. You've got some presets that are already set for you from Astro. There's Astro one, there's a balance and natural tournament. And you can go ahead and mess around with that and just send them whichever way you want. You've got your microphones. You've got your noise gates. I've got home. I can do streaming. I can do night, which is pretty nice. So right now I'm on home and I can go ahead and switch to streaming. And I'm going to just sync that to the device. And it's going to update right now. And now this is what streaming sounds like. It's very different from when I'm actually using this as a home setup. Then I can also switch over to night. And I'm going to sync that to the device again. Yes. And boom, this is what night sounds like. Again, different. You can change the mic levels in whichever way you want. This is probably higher because I've actually messed around with these. And then you've got tournament as well. I'm going to sync that again. And tournament is best when it's loud. So there's a very focused hearing. You also customize your side tone as well. So you've got that mixed in there. I'm going to go back to home. See what we have for home. And boom, we're back at home. So we have all our presets played in, everything set. And I like the software. It's simply easy and it saves to your system. Your Astro A40, the Mixam Pro TR. So really good, really solid. I think this is a headset that, if you're looking for a wired experience, it gives you the best of maximizes for your gaming console on your PC. Can't go wrong with the A40 TR with the Mixam Pro TR. 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